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Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints

By : Francesco Sapio
Book Image

Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints

By: Francesco Sapio

Overview of this book

Flexible, powerful, and full of rich features, Unity 5 is the engine of choice for AAA 2D and 3D game development. With comprehensive support for over 20 different platforms, Unity boasts a host of great new functions for making 2D games. Learn how to leverage these new options into awesome 2D games by building three complete game projects with the Unity game tutorials in this hands-on book. Get started with a quick overview of the principle concepts and techniques needed for making 2D games with Unity, then dive straight in to practical development. Build your own version of Super Mario Brothers as you learn how to animate sprites, work with physics, and construct brilliant UIs in order to create a platformer game. Go on a quest to create a RPG game discovering NPC design, event triggers, and AI programming. Finally, put your skills to the test against a real challenge - designing and constructing a complex strategy game that will draw on and develop all your previously learned skills.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we walked through basic pathfinding techniques and the AStar Algorithm, by adding our very first AI character, which in turn added more life to our game. We discussed pathfinding, the AStar Algorithm, and how to apply AI in Unity.

Unluckily, this is it for our RPG. In fact, to develop an entire game with all the features would require several books. However, in these last two chapters we gave a good foundation for learning more.

In the next chapter, we will move onto our last project, where we will use all of the skills that we have learnt so far to create a strategy game.